Oligarch Pinchuk’s article in The Wall Street Journal calling Ukraine to withdraw from rapprochement with the EU and NATO and accept elections in the so-called “DPR”/“LPR” will find its grateful readers both to the west and east of Kyiv.

"Both the article content and the time it was published are worthy of attention. It is a blatant manipulation, which will find its grateful readers to the west and east of Kyiv," Kuleba commented on Viktor Pinchuk's article in The Wall Street Journal.

As reported, Viktor Pinchuk wrote for The Wall Street Journal that Ukraine should abandon idea of joining NATO and EU and hold local elections in the occupied Donbas.

Petro Poroshenko Bloc (PPB) MP, head of Crimean Tatar Mejlis Refat Chubarov said: "What Viktor Pinchuk shyly calls a 'painful compromise,' is in fact an invitation for us, Ukraine and Ukrainians, including Crimea and Crimean Tatars, to capitulation. And this is a capitulation that will destroy us, for Pinchuk should understand that following the surrender of Crimea and the Donbas, refusal to become part of EU and NATO, Ukraine will simply cease to exist as an independent state."

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